Core News and Trends

A pricing analysis published by SignalBloom AI argues that combining an engineer based in a lower-cost country with an open-source model like DeepSeek is…

IrisGo has raised $2.8 million in seed funding led by Andrew Ng's AI Fund, with participation from Nvidia and Google, to build a desktop AI agent that learns…

Anthropic has launched Claude Security, a vulnerability scanner designed to help enterprise software teams find and patch weaknesses in their codebases before…

DuckDuckGo has reported a sharp spike in app installs following Google's recent overhaul of its search engine, which replaced traditional link results with…

Deepseek has made its steep pricing discounts permanent, dramatically lowering the cost of using its flagship AI models and intensifying competition with OpenAI…

OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT into Microsoft PowerPoint, giving users the ability to generate and edit presentation slides directly inside the software using…

Figma has launched a built-in AI design assistant that can generate, edit, and iterate on designs directly inside the company’s collaborative canvas, expanding…

Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model focused on agentic workflows and coding tasks, as the company pushes Gemini deeper into Search, developer…

Google is expanding Search with a new generation of AI-powered features centered around agentic capabilities, conversational interactions, and custom-generated…

Google expanded AI Studio at I/O 2026 with a series of new app-building tools, including native Android app generation, Google Workspace integrations, mobile…

Google unveiled a new AI agent called Gemini Spark at its I/O developer conference, expanding Gemini beyond a traditional chatbot into what the company…

Anthropic has hired Andrej Karpathy, the former OpenAI founding researcher and ex-Tesla AI director, adding one of the artificial intelligence industry’s most…